Are You Ready For Some Sniffles? Don't Get Tackled by Respiratory Illness Season

Unbiased Science

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this week's episode of the pod, we are doing a respiratory illness season roundup because it is upon us! We kick things off with a discussion on COVID-19 and the newly updated vaccines (including mRNA vaccines and Novavax). We present some of the latest statistics on disease burden and the increase in cases. Next, we move on to flu and discuss how vaccines are updated annually and address some myths and misconceptions about flu vaccines. Finally, we move on to RSV and discuss the newly approved preventatives for infants and people over 60+ years. We walk through the different options and eligibility. We hope you'll tune in and learn a thing or two! Interested in advertising with us? Please reach out to advertising@airwavemedia.com, with “Unbiased Science” in the subject line. PLEASE NOTE: The discussion and information provided in this podcast are for general educational, scientific, and informational purposes only and are not intended as, and should not be treated as, medical or other professional advice for any particular individual or individuals. Every person and medical issue is different, and diagnosis and treatment requires consideration of specific facts often unique to the individual. As such, the information contained in this podcast should not be used as a substitute for consultation with and/or treatment by a doctor or other medical professional. If you are experiencing any medical issue or have any medical concern, you should consult with a doctor or other medical professional. Further, due to the inherent limitations of a podcast such as this as well as ongoing scientific developments, we do not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information or analysis provided in this podcast, although, of course we always endeavor to provide comprehensive information and analysis. In no event may Unbiased Science or any of the participants in this podcast be held liable to the listener or anyone else for any decision allegedly made or action allegedly taken or not taken allegedly in reliance on the discussion or information in this podcast or for any damages allegedly resulting from such reliance. The information provided herein do not represent the views of our employers.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:20.0	Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.
0:26.8	We're your hosts Dr. Jessica Steyer and Dr. Andrea Love.
0:30.8	And this week, we're doing a little bit of a pulse check on respiratory illness season because we're in it now and discussing where we're at
0:41.1	with COVID flu and RSV. So let's set the stage a little bit. So 4.25 million annual deaths. So
0:53.3	4.25 million people die every year. And at least 6% of the world's
0:59.5	deaths and disabilities are due to acute respiratory infections. So as of 2019, 17.2 billion with
1:09.1	the B upper respiratory infections accounted for almost 43% of all cause
1:15.9	illnesses globally. Now, when we look at lower respiratory illnesses specifically,
1:22.2	in 2019, there were almost 500 million incident cases and 2.4 million deaths due to lower respiratory
1:31.9	illness. And the global age standardized incidents and death rates for lower respiratory illness
1:38.4	were about 6,200 and 34 per 100,000 in 2019, which represents a 24% and 49% decrease respectively since 1990.
1:54.0	Now, that's really encouraging because it suggests that a lot of the measures that we've been
1:58.6	taking to reduce disease burden, illness, and mortality
2:03.6	for many of these are working, right? We have better therapeutic interventions. We have earlier
2:09.8	diagnostics. We have antivirals for things like influenza. And the reason that we're talking,
2:16.7	of course, COVID flu and RSV is
2:18.7	because we now have vaccines for those three. When you're looking at acute respiratory infections
2:25.7	and lower respiratory illness, the major players are influenza viruses, Hara influenza viruses,
2:33.0	human metanumoviruses, coronaviruses, which now include SARS-CoV-2,
2:38.8	but there also are the human coronaviruses that cause like common colds.
2:45.0	You have respiratory syncytial virus, and then the rhinoviruses, which are also viruses
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